15th anniversary

Investment Week was first published on 30 January 1995, by a small company called City Financial Communications, which employed 13 people having been established as an EIS scheme by founder Tim Weller.

Parents couldn't possibly borrow any more - Or could they? The Contrarian Investor, David Stevenson, does some blue-sky thinking and imagines what the future might hold. And it's not that far-fetched!

Fifteen years ago I did not look like this and I did not have this column - I was far too shy to have a picture of myself in the first issue - or in fact any issue until a few years ago. How times change.

Anyone remotely optimistic about prospects for global equities over the next 15 years simply cannot avoid, or significantly underweight, US equities.

Let us enjoy the equity sweet spot for now. Interest rates are likely to remain low for some time as the recovery remains fragile.

Timing the market comes down to a simple choice between value and momentum investing - both have their promoters and detractors and at the end of the day it may boil down to a simple matter of personality

When we considered the outlook for Russia at the beginning on 2009, it appeared we were staring into the abyss.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the world's third largest trading block with a GDP that has doubled since 1997

Concentrating on US healthcare reform has led many analysts to overlook other positives in the biotechnology sector

Increases in exports of soy beans and iron ore helped China overtake the US as Brazil's largest trading partner.